Agency May Contract Out 10,000 Jobs
From Associated Press
The U.S. Forest Service is considering a plan to let private contractors compete for more than 10,000 jobs to meet Bush administration goals to encourage competition for federal work.
At least 20,000 of the agency’s 40,000 employees perform tasks that duplicate work done in the private sector, such as computer operations, data collection and maintenance, the agency says in a draft memo.
At least half of those so-called commercial jobs are subject to competition from the private sector, the memo said.
The proposal, issued June 9, was designed to meet President Bush’s goal of opening to competition at least 15% of work designated as not inherently governmental by this fall.
